And I would expect the American people to depose Trump before that.
Excellent, because no way Trump doesn’t lie under oath to Mueller. Pathological liar that he is.
OT, but applicable, I think.
Many years ago, I was teaching the book Treasure Island to a group of middle school kids. After reading the section where Long John Silver is handed The Black Spot (meaning he was deposed as the leader of the pirates) a student handed me The Black Spot, “deposing” me as teacher. I thought it was hilarious, and still have that as a small keepsake of my teaching career.
If only we could just hand Trump and his pirate crew The Black Spot…
Who you gonna trust??
So if he is deposed by the Special Cousel, who resolves any evidentiary disputes? In. a lawsuit, such disputes are resolved by the court or other pending forum. Would the federal district court have that duty here?
“I would expect at some point, not right away, but at some point that Mr. Mueller will would feel he has to depose the President.”
Depose? Does that mean to chop his head off?
If he’s creative enough.
Depose the King! Yeah! Oh, that kind of depose.
And here I was thinking pikes, defenestrations and other Queen of Heartsy kind of stuff.
IANAL, but afaik the special counsel just decides whether there’s enough evidence to bring cases and then brings them (or is it a referral?). So conflict of evidence would be handled later.
Unfortunately not. But maybe later
The Special Counsel reports to Congress so it would be up to Congress to impeach him on the basis of perjury. I imagine the report would document the perjury or put down the facts and let Congress decide.
So he acts like a grand jury?x
Yeah he does:
"The impeachment of Bill Clinton was initiated by the House of Representatives on December 19, 1998, against Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, on two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice.[1] These charges stemmed from Clinton’s extramarital affair with former White House Intern Monica Lewinsky and his testimony about the affair during a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against him by Paula Jones. Clinton was subsequently acquitted of these charges by the Senate on February 12, 1999.[2] Two other impeachment articles – a second perjury charge and a charge of abuse of power – failed in the House.
Leading to the impeachment, Independent Counsel Ken Starr turned over documentation to the House Judiciary Committee. Chief Prosecutor David Schippers
and his team reviewed the material and determined there was sufficient
evidence to impeach the president. As a result, four charges were
considered by the full House of Representatives; two passed, making
Clinton the second president to be impeached, after Andrew Johnson in 1868, and only the third against whom articles of impeachment had been brought before the full House for consideration (Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency in 1974, while an impeachment process against him was underway)."
from Wikipedia
Trump being deposed by Mueller?
Better to turn America into a Quantico than a Gitmo …Oorah!
Trump, and his private attorneys, have never played this game. Mueller and his staff will come up with one page of questions that Donnie will plead total ignorance of any knowledge concerning the queries.
I think their may be some understandable confusion here. The Special Counsel reports to the Deputy Attorney General, not Congress. His is not pursuing his investigation on behalf of Congress, but rather for the purpose of bringing criminal charges. 28 CFR 600.
It’s confusing (at least to me) because in the past the general term Special Counsel has been applied to different kinds of positions, including independent counsel selected by a three-judge panel under a now-expired Ethic in Government Act.
A Special Counsel under 28 CFR 600 functions much like a U.S. Attorney so he can use a grand jury, issue subpoenas, and compel testimony. In normal criminal practice if a witness wants to raise an evidentiary dispute a federal district judge (or magistrate judge) would decide the issue.
So… basically he’s a federal prosecutor with just one high profile case.
How do idiots like this become Senators? Mueller will never depose the President. First, there is no criminal charge that would require him to be deposed. Second, the President could tell him I am not going to participate in your political witch hunt. Finally, if he wanted to he could also fire Mueller and the guy who appointed him and the Attorney General.
Because that worked out so well for the previous president who did it. (Sorry, I know I shouldn’t feed the troll.)
Unless Trump, like Nixon, starts suborning perjury, conspires to pay people to keep silent, commits perjury etc…then he is fine.